European Growth Leaders 2026

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Annual rank33

Belgium · Industrials

Cenergy Holdings

Cenergy Holdings' portfolio includes Hellenic Cables, which makes power, telecommunications and submarine cables, and Corinth Pipeworks, which manufactures steel pipes.

+45%revenue growth
FY2022–FY2025
+220%net-income growth
FY2022–FY2025
+420%stock return
FY2022–FY2025
+39%2026 stock return
current context only

Company profile

Two industrial platforms for cable links and energy pipelines

Cenergy Holdings SA is the listed Belgian parent of two industrial platforms: Hellenic Cables and Corinth Pipeworks. The first combines power- and telecom-cable factories with installation partnerships; the second combines welded-pipe mills, coating and logistics. This profile attributes plants and projects to the operating company, and keeps completed references separate from contract awards, conditional frameworks and capacity still being built.

Parent and operating boundary

The listed issuer owns the platforms; its companies run the plants

Cenergy is the issuer: CENER trades on Euronext Brussels, with a secondary Euronext Athens listing. Its 2025 report assigns Hellenic Cables S.A. and its direct and indirect subsidiaries to cables, and Corinth Pipeworks S.A. plus its subsidiaries to steel pipes. The subsidiary accounts make ownership explicit: Cenergy owns 100% of Hellenic Cables and wholly owns Corinth Pipeworks. Hellenic consolidates Fulgor and Lesco plus project joint operations. Corinth's 2025 accounts provide a dated map: CPW Solar entered dissolution and liquidation on 14 October 2025, and CPW Wind did so on 13 January 2026. They also record CPW America, Warsaw Tubular Trading and wholly owned Corinth Pipeworks UK Limited, established in Q1 2026 for the Hartlepool transaction. Viohalco remains Cenergy's parent.

Hellenic Cables

Corinth makes the subsea lengths; Thiva closes the land route

Hellenic's range runs from array cables to 72.5 kV through HVAC export systems to 400 kV and HVDC export systems to 525 kV. Fulgor's Soussaki, Corinth plant makes submarine, fibre-optic, composite and special-purpose cables beside a cable-loading port; Thiva makes land power and telecom cables. Delivery runs from route survey and design through transport, laying, burial, protection, jointing and final tests. Rio-Antirrion is completed proof: 18 km of 400 kV submarine cable from Corinth and 42 km of land cable from Thiva, completed in 2020.

Corinth Pipeworks

Four pipe mills feed coating, testing and project logistics

At Thisvi, four welded-pipe mills - 7-inch and 26-inch HFI, 100-inch SAWH and 56-inch LSAW - sit with external and internal coating lines. Output covers onshore and offshore line pipe plus hollow structural sections; up-to-24.4-m HFI lengths are designed to reduce onsite welding and field-joint coating. The concrete-weight-coating line was commissioned and operating in 2025, adding 12-40-inch offshore-pipe coating. CPW completed its TAP pipe-production scope: 28,600 pipes covering 495 km were manufactured and coated at Thisvi on schedule. The English corporate film shows testing, coating, storage, port handling and project logistics.

Strategy, geography and status

Global expansion is visible, but awards are not deliveries

The declared growth lanes are electricity networks and offshore wind for cables, and gas-transition, hydrogen and CCS pipelines for steel pipes. At 31 December 2025, awards across both segments supported a EUR 3.38 billion backlog; that is contracted, awarded or preferred-bidder work, not delivery. By Q1 2026, expanded Corinth subsea capacity was fully available, Baltimore's land-cable Phase 1 was under construction, and the Hartlepool LSAW acquisition had completed. The June 2026 IPTO Lot A framework remains conditional on approvals and a notice to proceed, with production expected from 2027. The group reports large projects in more than 70 countries.

Current 2026 update

What has changed in 2026?

IPTO framework award · 25 June 2026

IPTO framework awardlatest official update
4company-specific highlights
+39%2026 stock return · context only

Revenue

Q1 revenue rose to EUR 510.7m from EUR 487.9m.

Q1 2026 · EUR 510.7m · +4.7%

Adjusted EBITDA

Q1 adjusted EBITDA rose to EUR 100.4m from EUR 75.7m.

Q1 2026 · EUR 100.4m · +32.6%

Profit

Q1 profit after tax rose to EUR 74.1m from EUR 41.0m.

Q1 2026 · EUR 74.1m · +80.7%

IPTO framework award

Hellenic Cables was awarded Lot A of an IPTO framework agreement worth about EUR 1.15bn; signing and execution remain subject to approvals and a notice to proceed.

IPTO framework award

Annual record

Ranking history

Future editions add rows; they do not rewrite the 2026 record.

EditionMeasurement periodRankRevenue growthNet-income growthStock return
2026FY2022–FY202533+45%+220%+420%